Maurice Ravel

Modest Mussorgsky (1839-1881) composed Pictures at an Exhibition for solo piano as a musical depiction of a tour through an exhibition of paintings by his late friend Viktor Hartman. The most commonly...

Modest Mussorgsky (1839-1881) composed Pictures at an Exhibition for solo piano as a musical depiction of a tour through an exhibition of paintings by his late friend Viktor Hartman. The most commonly...

Modest Mussorgsky (1839-1881) composed Pictures at an Exhibition for solo piano as a musical depiction of a tour through an exhibition of paintings by his late friend Viktor Hartman. The most commonly...

Originally written as a suite for solo piano, Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) later orchestrated four movements from Le Tombeau de Couperin in 1919 (Prélude, Forlane, Menuet, and Rigaudon). This orchestral...

Click here for the original version of Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition. Ravel's ingenious compositional interpretation is still the best-known and most independent orchestration of Pictures at...

Ravel's multi-layered homage in the 'Breitkopf Urtext' In his homage Le Tombeau de Couperin, Ravel turns less to Couperin himself than to French music of the 18th century. On the other hand, editor Je...

Jean-François Monnard's new Urtext edition is based for the first time on a scholarly comparison of sources. It is based on Ravel's first draft of the score and his final handwritten score.

Jean-François Monnard's Urtext edition is the first edition of La Valse that compares all relevant sources. The first printing of the score, published in 1921, served as a model.

A 'firework' in Urtext After 'Boléro' and 'La Valse', a third, much-performed work by Ravel is included in the Breitkopf orchestral program - and this, of course, in a 'Breitkopf Urtext' edition, agai...

Dream Waltz 'À l'exemple de Schubert' - Ravel re-invents the waltz, inspired by Liszt, Chopin, Schumann and Chabrier, transforming the rhapsodic gyrations of the dance and sending it whirling into the...

Ravel's multi-layered Hommage in the 'Breitkopf Urtext' In his Hommage Le Tombeau de Couperin, Ravel addresses not so much Couperin himself as the French music of the 18th century. On the other hand,...

This beautiful melody is best known as an orchestral or piano work but the long legato melodies adapt ideally for the brass ensemble. Guaranteed to make your audience dissolve!